The corpus record — Latin

Valentia2

Valentia2 · f

bodily strength

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Where it lives

Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. vălentĭa — Lewis & Short

vălentĭa, ae, f.valens, from valeo,

I bodily strength, vigor (ante- and post-class.): sapientia gubernator navem torquet, non valentia, Titin. ap. Non. 186, 25; Naev. ib.; Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 14 med.; Tert. adv. Jud. 9.—

B Capacity, endowment: ultra communem hominum valentiam perspicaces, Boëth. Cons. Phil. 1.

2. Vălentĭa — Lewis & Short

Vălentĭa, ae, f.,

I the name of several towns.

I A town of the Editani, in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Valencia, Mel. 2, 6, 6; Sall. H. 2, 18 al.—

II A town of Gallia Narbonensis, now Valence, Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 36. —

III Vibo Valentia (called also simply Vibo or Vibon), a town in the territory of the Bruttii, now Monteleone, Mel. 2, 4, 9.— Hence. Vălentīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Valentia, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 40. —

IV A name given to the southern part of Scotland, in honor of the emperor Valentinian, Amm. 28, 3, 7.—

V A translation of Gr. *(rw/mh, an ancient name of Rome, Sol. 1.

In the wild

ualentiam Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.P2
Valentia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.3.p2
Valentia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.3.7
Valentiam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.10.1
Valentiam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p11
Valentia Sallust, Historiae Pomp.p2

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.